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(Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran. REBECCA MACKINNON Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted... NICK DAVIES An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody. A... MELYSSA WINCHESTER Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building ... STEPHEN KINZER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious ref... ALISTAIR HORNE Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected... CONRAD BLACK To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE It really requires joint intervention (with the U.S. Federal Reserve), and no U.S. official is going... CLAUDIO PIRON There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Take other elections throughout the world, ... Take the election in the U.S. itself. The turnout rat... LAURENT GBAGBO Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt... GREG GRANDIN A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki... A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck&... SIMON HOGGART You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetin... PAUL KEATING Stay alert, stay alive. MOTTO OF THE U.S. FIRST INFANTRY DIVISION IN VIETNAM Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing... J.G. BALLARD The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world. MAX BAUCUS There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic m... STEPHEN KINZER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism... CAMILLE PAGLIA That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER The prime minister had a CT scan that showed that the bleeding has stopped. He was then put in the n... SHLOMO MOR YOSEF This all but closes the door for a breakthrough in U.S.-Iran relations. KARIM SADJADPOUR The U.S. has violated certain standards in its fight against terror. We need to draw a clear line be... GREGOR GYSI God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ... MARTIN JACQUES The fact that I was elected prime minister shows that the LDP has changed, JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in ... EHUD OLMERT He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longi... CATHERINE LACEY I think it is very dangerous if the U.S. is supportive of the Israeli government and of the confront... ANNA LINDH That case was decided in Canada with Canadian law and this case will be decided in a U.S. court with... BRIAN HENRY In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The sitting prime minister, Jose Aznar, who had strongly backed the U.S.-led Iraq War, was unseated ... PETER BERGEN [British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who in 1997 mourned the death of the] People's Princess ... deli... PRINCESS DIANA Let (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair hear it. We are not for the British bidder either, ROBERT MUGABE There are risks in someone who believes that the peace process started the day he was elected prime ... AKIVA ELDAR All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things. MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw... J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact? PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r... THICH NHAT HANH
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